This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruffs dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles Theban cycle; presenting the translators Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruffs Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by Meineck. Grippingly readable; all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek with concision; clarity; and powerful; hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes; stage directions; and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruffs Introduction discusses the playwright; Athenian theatre and performance; the composition of the plays; and the plots and characters of each; it also offers thoughtful reflections on major critical interpretations of these plays.
#4404772 in eBooks 2009-06-26 2009-06-26File Name: B007SZG374
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